The Beginner's Guide

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

The Beginner's Guide is a walking simulator, story rich and narration game developed and published by Everything Unlimited Ltd..
Released on October 01st 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Russian.

It has received 21,386 reviews of which 18,811 were positive and 2,575 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.87€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.


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Requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher - *NOT* an Intel Express graphics card).
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher required
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04
  • Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

Reviews

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Nov. 2024
I'll keep it short and sweet with a few quick bullet points. 1. You should go into this game as blind as possible. It is a different story the more context about it you have. 2. This game affected me more viscerally than any other. It is the most impactful game I have ever played. 3. This game is especially impactful if you are someone engaged in game development, or any sort of creation. 4. The game lasts ~100 minutes (exactly, if you're me), and feels like a thousand sucker punches to the gut. I cannot recommend it enough. Please play this game.
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April 2024
I have to thank PirateSoftware for the recommendation. I feel that most people will have a different takeaway upon completing this game. For me, it's realizing that I should be creating things for myself and rather not worry what others will think of it as long as it's something I can be proud of. Lacking the motivation and constantly wondering "does this suck" affected my ability to write and create videos I enjoyed doing. I needed to remember the reason I was doing them was because I liked doing it for me. This was a great experience.
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Feb. 2024
PirateSoftware was not lying when he said to play this game for creative motivation. Literally getting killed for creative things I wanna make or am making and just not finishing the things I've started. Feeling like I'm slipping out of this evens tho I really wanna do it, but no one is saying just 'DO IT' cause I'm that type of person. I got no real reason and tired of giving a real reason to things I wanna do. I just really really wanted to make some Awesome Shit.
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Jan. 2024
This game is fantastic for getting the machine working again. Highly recommend this for creatives.
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Dec. 2023
So uh... who else is here thanks to PirateSoftware? Rather than just reviewing the game, I went and made a whole video essay about it. I would highly encourage you to play the game before engaging with any content (including my own) about it, PSoft was spot on and this game is fantastic for really anyone that creates... *stuff* 5 bucks is also a steal and thats what its on sale for at the moment. Here's the video essay for anyone curious: https://youtu.be/qcNlvhnDX_Y
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The Beginner's Guide
8.6
18,811
2,575
Online players
23
Developer
Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Publisher
Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Release 01 Oct 2015
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